That story is attested to in scholarly sources. It's not something a White Wolf writer made up.
It's still hilarious.
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- Mon Dec 06, 2010 4:52 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: The Decline and Fall of White Wolf
- Replies: 74
- Views: 27929
- Thu Dec 02, 2010 5:49 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Healing Surges : What we learned
- Replies: 26
- Views: 8353
- Fri Nov 26, 2010 9:05 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What do the 3.x stats mean?
- Replies: 75
- Views: 10456
- Fri Nov 26, 2010 4:46 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Getting Rid of Ability Scores in 3e D&D-style systems
- Replies: 47
- Views: 9161
So let's consider skills for a bit. I was thinking that in a system like this... There's a list of, say, 15 total skills. Choose... 2 skills to be Excellent at (5+ 1/2 level) 4 skills to be Good at (3 + 1/2 level) 4 Skill to be Proficient at (+3 bonus) 1 skill to be Terrible at (-3 penalty) The rem...
- Fri Nov 26, 2010 4:03 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Pathfinder Is Still Bad
- Replies: 8556
- Views: 1748883
There crappy writers are approximately every single writer who worked on mid- to high-level monsters ever. Because MMs featured gigantic monsters that totally can chew on you or swallow you since earliest editions. Heck, we had the picture of one of the iconics being chewed on by a Colossal dragon ...
- Fri Nov 26, 2010 4:31 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Pathfinder Is Still Bad
- Replies: 8556
- Views: 1748883
I don't think this is how HPs work in DnD. They really only measure how close you are to being unconscious, rather than strictly measuring how much damage you've taken. A 4HP attack against a 100HP giant is more likely than not just some light fatigue rather than actually being stabbed. This is an ...
- Tue Nov 23, 2010 3:39 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Adapting Feng Shui
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1177
Not being familiar with Feng Shui, how mechanically specific are the individual schticks? Shticks in Feng Shui aren't skills like in Over the Edge; Feng Shui also has skills. A shtick is like a d20 feat, expanded to include magic, cybernetic upgrades, and so on. Your Archetype gives you parameters ...
- Mon Nov 22, 2010 10:44 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Adapting Feng Shui
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1177
Adapting Feng Shui
In terms of the ease with which one can throw together an interesting and half-way balanced character, Feng Shui is one of my favorite games. The Archetype+Shtick system allows for rapid character creation. I've seen the system adapted before by Frank for God of War, but the basic concepts seem flex...
- Mon Nov 22, 2010 10:23 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Getting Rid of Ability Scores in 3e D&D-style systems
- Replies: 47
- Views: 9161
- Mon Nov 22, 2010 7:16 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Tiers and Funds
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2052
Sounds a bit like the Wish Economy. I think the idea here is applying the Wish Economy idea on a more general basis. By making currencies not trade up, you free the players from having to play Super Accountancy Bros. every time they massacre some orcs and give them the opportunity to do fun things ...
- Tue Nov 16, 2010 10:10 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Killing Mister Cavern?
- Replies: 96
- Views: 15744
- Mon Nov 15, 2010 4:05 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: A Thing Of Beauty...
- Replies: 23
- Views: 7057
- Wed Nov 10, 2010 8:43 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Math That "Just Works"
- Replies: 143
- Views: 33351
True. In fact, let's make this math needlessly complicated so as to demonstrate how not that hard this actually is. I see what you're doing here, and it's cool, but do we really need to make something that sucks (in terms of complexity) entirely out of spite? I mean, I know this is the Den, and we ...
- Mon Nov 08, 2010 2:40 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: GNS Theory: Good, Bad, or Ugly
- Replies: 232
- Views: 54799
Mouse Guard is like Burning Wheel except streamlined, which is good because BW gets very clunky. The universal conflict system (like rock-paper-scissors, but it applies to combat, sieges, chases, debates, and what have you) is interesting, and Mouse Guard is a property well-suited to having an RPG i...
- Sun Nov 07, 2010 8:22 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: GNS Theory: Good, Bad, or Ugly
- Replies: 232
- Views: 54799
The only Forge game I've seen is 3:16CAtS. It's decent. It is not what I would call a robust game, but it is fun for what it is. What's a good example of a Forge-related game that actually had some ambition? That's the thing about Forge games: they're dedicated to the idea that a game should only b...
- Wed Nov 03, 2010 6:22 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Yet Another Combat Positioning System
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1208
- Wed Nov 03, 2010 6:18 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: 3.x D&D - WOT version Magic System - More Balanced?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3102
Re: 3.x D&D - WOT version Magic System - More Balanced?
I guess the major point is: Would it be better if D&D had harder rules about what magic can and cannot do more like a novel? Yes, it would definitely better, for exactly the reasons you stated. The problem is that D&D is expected to be the premier generic fantasy ruleset, so it ends up havi...
- Wed Nov 03, 2010 2:22 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Play Example: RAL
- Replies: 55
- Views: 11009
PL, It's almost as if, when storming the throne room of the goblin king, you might be forced to spend a few rounds hacking away a his waves of goblin soldiers before breaking through the lines to get at him and his vizier. Because that totally can't be represented in a simpler fashion by any other ...
- Tue Nov 02, 2010 8:28 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: GNS Theory: Good, Bad, or Ugly
- Replies: 232
- Views: 54799
- Tue Oct 26, 2010 7:26 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Dress Up Barbie Dolls in Accessory Mansions... the RPG
- Replies: 24
- Views: 7905
Re: Dress Up Barbie Dolls in Accessory Mansions... the RPG
These higher tier abilities and items allow you to scale up the sorts of encounters you engage in. For you "an encounter" is now primarily a raid on someone else's entire Barbie Mansion in one go. What plans do you have for supporting this concept? You mentioned that raiding mansions woul...
- Sat Oct 23, 2010 11:10 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Magic as a D&D Edition Setting
- Replies: 461
- Views: 77867
RPGs being supported by a different, popular game is nothing new (Legend of the Five Rings and Warhammer come to mind) so I could see this working. The trick is not to make it a port, but rather inextricably fuse them. The designers of both games have increasingly migrated them together anyhow: powe...
- Wed Oct 20, 2010 7:28 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Okay, 4E is really doomed.
- Replies: 26
- Views: 5450
- Tue Oct 19, 2010 2:59 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Pathfinder: the Lowdown
- Replies: 1819
- Views: 341989
- Sat Oct 16, 2010 6:52 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: The reason why fighters will never have nice things.
- Replies: 773
- Views: 128891
- Mon Oct 11, 2010 4:49 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: D20 Modern games
- Replies: 51
- Views: 8879
Remember that Wisdom also includes both perception and willpower. A Dedicated PC can hide out for days with a sniper rifle without moving, detect an enemy ambush, face down a tiger without flinching, see through an informant's lies, and make lesser foes back down just from seeing the cold, grim look...